10 Surprising Ways Automation Can Simplify IT

Enhance Security and Compliance

Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, HIPAA, high-profile hackings — the list of imperatives for data security is long and growing. Automation solutions with auditing capabilities allow IT organizations to set policies on plans and other workflows, requiring users to enter authorizations before they can perform various operations. Such policies also provide ready-made evidence of compliance.

You're not imagining it: IT is getting more complex. Things are moving faster, infrastructure is diversifying, and the list of critical business functions is growing. Yet most IT professionals would never guess that the answer to these challenges lies in software with roots that extend all the way back to the days of batch processing.

"Today's cross-platform workload automation solutions have taken job scheduling to places no one would have dreamed of even five years ago," says Jim Manias, vice president of Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. "These solutions far outstrip the siloed scheduling tools typically packaged with mission-critical applications and database management systems."

Modern workload automation is able to address both the demands and the opportunities presented by real-time data processing and distributed, virtual computing. It can also make life easier for IT staff in a world where employees are everywhere and computing assets are increasingly mobile. In this slideshow, Kaitlin Olcott, Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc., has outlined 10 unexpected ways automation can make any IT organization more agile — and less stressed.

Regardless of the pace at which businesses adopt the IoT, ITSM will have to evolve to deal with IoT-driven changes such as more connected nodes, data points and automation, all of which add complexity. ... More >>

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